I was midway through writing a completely different article to post here when the news broke on Thursday that India’s Supreme Court had overturned the law known as Section 377, which criminalized homosexual acts in India for over 150 years, and which first came into effect in the Indian Penal Code of 1860. This event struck me as exigent enough to abandon my initial efforts in hopes of instead using this as an opportunity to examine political hypocrisy, neocolonial impulses,